Only great minds can read this:

(It was bourhgt to my atttneoin by smoenoe at reddit.com taht tihs is not new. He was pttery uspet aobut it – mdae me lguah. It is new to me, and I hpoe to smoe of you!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a gerat mnid too.

Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.

i cdnoult blveiee taht I cluod aulacity uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid – aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are; the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sittll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorant!

bghourt to you by Rbo’s Mgheanope

(submitted by my son) author unknown.

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Dr. Robert Stevenson is a Professor of Journalism and Director of Student Publications for the Department of Mass Communications and Theater at Lander University in Greenwood, SC. He received the Distinguished Faculty of the Year award for 2007-'08, and the Lander University Young Faculty Scholar Award in 2005-06. Stevenson also serves as chair of the Lander University American Democracy Project. First and Formost I am a dad of two wonderful boys.

And then there is linguistic determinism (language shapes thought). The limits of our language are the limits of our world. What we cannot say, we cannot think. It makes me wonder what important things we are missing because we cannot think about them using language. These things still exist but are beyond language and therefore beyond any discourse.